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Cousin Quiz!

I posted on Confessions today about the family reunion we attended over the weekend, and as I was typing up the post, I had the most brain-crushing time piecing together how the relatives fit together. I love thinking about cousin relationship, but sometimes my brain misfires and I get lost in the once-removed craziness of it all.

Just for fun, here’s a cousin quiz if you’d like to check your knowledge about how different branches of family trees fit together! The answers will be shown right after you submit your answers, so you can see how you did.

Feel free to shout out your scores when you’re finished…oh, and if you spot any errors in my answers, please let me know. I’m never 100% sure I’m right about these crazy genealogical matters.

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I still get so confused on the “cousins” thing – really doesn’t matter – they’re all my cousins, 1st, 2nd whatever – they’re still my family!!

Nicky

Yay, 100%! Thanks for the challenge, I haven’t thought about cousin relationships for a while 🙂

Traci

100% Genealogy is my “thing”

Janene

I can do the cousin thing fairly easy – just please don’t make me name all of them! With 20 first cousins on both sides of my family, I don’t have a chance! 🙂

Dana C

I bombed….13% score!! O well they are all still family not matter if 1st cousin or 31st! LOL! Cousins are the childhood friends you get into trouble with, pull pranks with, and are the best confidants even as adults noone beats a cousin for a friend!! Especially since they know all the things we did as kids and were never caught at!!

Susan

That was fun, but there is no shout out on my part….. Wondering how my Farmer Second cousin by marriage is doing today….any new pigs?

First day with the new reader…. have resigned myself to loosing a lot of posts until I get the “hang” of this…. right now wondering how to make the posts I have read disappear….. problem for another day.

Margie

I too only received 13%. Hey, a cousin is a cousin is a cousin. Half of my cousin’s kids call me “Aunt Margie” anyway! 🙂

http://PioneerWoman Sheryl Anne

Has anybody else out there done the DNA thing where you sign up to get a kit to collect saliva and send it in and they analyze it? Then they can tell you your percentages of heritage (Northen European, Middle Eastern, Subsaharan, Asian, Native American, etc.), and also you get info on disease risks, and also if you want they will send you matches of others that match your DNA. I was able to contact relatives that were all around the world, because they matched my DNA. Several people were able to find matches in their family trees that included relatives back in our great great grandparents etc. generations, to find how we were related. Its just so interesting.

I used the website http://www.23andme.com, but I know there are others. The only issue right now is that you only get matches from others that have used the same service as you. The last I checked it was down to $99 a person, for all the features you have access to. I received a list of matches of around 1000 people going fom “2nd, 3rd 4th cousins, to distant” cousins!

KarenH

The cousin thing is tricky. 🙂 We had our family reunion earlier this month and for updates to be made to our family’s “branch” the printout filled a 36 FOOT banner!!!

Char

I feel a bit better about my 25%. All I can say is, clear as mud!

Rebekah Hall

I got a whopping 13 percent! Whoot whoot! xD

Susan W.

100%, but it took a while. I’m thankful my mom instilled the importance of family relationships.

Sarah

I got 88%. There’s a really easy way to think about it. It’s like a ladder. The first generation of cousins is the first rung on the ladder, their children are the second run, the third generation of children are the third rung, and so on. If you have to cross over rungs at any point, you become removed. If you go down one rung, its first removed, two rungs twice removed,etc. My great-grandmother who is 101 and had 11 children now has over 100 descendants who I see regularly, so its important for me to know these things!

Nancy B.

It’s all hypothetical seeing as how my father (question #1) didn’t have any cousins, and I (question #8) do not have any granchildren. I did o.k. with a score of 75%. Missed 2 — altho not #1 or #8.

Rachel

Once I hit question 3, the word “cousin” ceased to have any meaning for me

Maggie B.

Woohoo!!!! I got 100%! I LOVE studying family genealogy, so I’ll have to admit it wasn’t that hard. 😉

http://connellyconfusion.blogspot.com Rebeccah

Am I the first person to get a ZERO? HA!

Sky

100%! I always know these answers when someone asks, but because they’re not sure themselves, they never quite believe me.

Jenni

I’ve done a fair amount of family history stuff, so yay for me I scored 100% !

Courtney

75% Not too bad! I missed #6 and #8

Jan Dickens-Munkres

ok, I don’t know much lol

Anita

Yay! 100% It was quite the brain exercise on a Monday morning.

Julie

Oh how embarrassing, I scored 0%!!!

Cindy in GA

I had absolutely no clue & scored 25%… which makes sense since there were 4 possible answers for each question. I guess I’m an average guesser!